Mike Lowder

If you're a D or D-adjacent voter in NC and haven't voted yet, you have the chance to help deliver truly historic curb-stomping to the R supermajorities in the NCGA Please go vote 😄

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

Here's the perfect comic I cited in the conclusion of my most recent article, btw newrepublic.com/article/2150...

At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

Wow. Sharia Law AND turning every kid trans? What a wild platform that Hinojosa has.

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

This headline structure is literally the joke format we use to make fun of people like this

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Come on man that's just mean

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

He is so close to getting it

These people are despicable. America, we should be better than this.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

We cannot allow slurs and hatred like this to be normalized in the public discourse. It has consequences for everyone. Also, standing up for trans people is just the right thing to do.

"Fox News hosts are professional propagandists. I think they looked at Zacharia as someone who was not capable of covering for Donald Trump when he gets in trouble, someone who wouldn’t be able to lash out at the media for daring to cover him, and they helped her off stage because of that."

The same guy who endorsed tafoya in the strib today wrote that "70 percent of the teams in the NBA could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with the possible exception of increase in street crime." He's considered a moderate.

baby weight

Texas AG Ken Paxton has taken about 350 out-of-state trips with a state-funded security detail. During a 2017 Israel trip, organizers said Paxton insisted on his own security despite the government providing it for other AGs. His detail cost $75,000. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u... #txlege

this is the heart of it, and to me a defining story of this midterm. there's a kind of rebuild you can only pull off when you've bottomed out. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yet another example of Trump's long history of saying that Jews are "disloyal" or shameful if they do not vote for him or his chosen candidates. According to him, one can only be a real American Jew if they support Israel specifically by voting for him and his picks.

Free speech when I control the speech

Getting the Epstein Files off the front page coast every American money. Or we could just lock up child rapists?

$2,000. That’s how much an average household in the U.S. has had to fork over because of Trump’s war. Here’s how it all adds up to your bottom line:

"…Epstein immediately approached her saying 'I’m Jeffrey, Don’s best friend.' Epstein then spent at least 10 minutes talking to Keul, all the time looking over and grinning at Trump… Epstein also made similar promises as Trump…'You know I can take care of you. We organize many parties with Don.'"

Broadening recognition of a shared global struggle for human rights and dignity is indeed fatal for Yglesias's worldview

This Day in Labor History: October 28, 1825. The Erie Canal opens after over 1,000 workers die building it! Let's talk about the labor history of this early engineering marvel!

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

me internally, writing the above

hm. lula succeeded by out-shouting the right and not begging for the press to do the lift for him and his supporters? wow, wonder who has been saying something like that in america for almost 20 years?

nazis have always hated the disabled

Here Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin talk to me about working with Dem Appropriators to target Trump's corrupt prosecutions of Ilhan Omar and others with various defunding tactics. “We will actively and aggressively investigate this case,” Jayapal says. newrepublic.com/article/2171...

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

Like realizing your parents aren't infallible, political adulthood begins when you realize the "great minds" elites rely on are all dumb fucking propagandists that capitalism lifts through the system because they're shameless in their wrongness and are willing to serve as dull priests of whatever.

I am not even sure we can say conclusively that January 6th didn't work. There was so little punishment. Many plotters remained in office. Some moved into government. They held a coalition together and arguably acheived their key goal four years later.

clinton adding a bunch of restrictions to which families the government helps feed their kids? yea that's left a mark.

Alternatively, we can just tax the living hell out of them